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That’s when you start stumbling over your words, getting all the things out, crying out with all the pain you have suppressed when you release all the stress and anxiety that you have tried to hide….the room shifts somehow. It feels more honest. More open. Like you can keep going. Like you should keep going.

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I was saying “yes” to everything. When you say yes to too many things, your fire dwindles. You extinguish the flames.